Best Buy used Google App Engine as their development platform, which allowed them to relaunch their original application in only 11 weeks with roughly half the original development resources.

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Solution Type

IT

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Solution Maturity

Emerging (technology has been on the market for > 2 years)

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Operational Impact

Impact #1

The app can now handle any amount of traffic, without maintenance.

Impact #2

Dramatic time and cost savings in app development, which has led to the creation of many more apps across other business units.

Impact #3

Since Best Buy discovered that it can launch new apps in a matter of weeks with only one or two developers, the development team has launched more than ten other web applications on Google App Engine, including:

BBY Scan: A QR-code generator that allows users to manage QR codes through various URLs, and routes the requests accordingly.

BBY Offer: A real-time app that captures offer data from other systems and manages and uploads offers. It works with various web and mobile apps.

Universal View: An app that recognizes the site visitor’s device format (mobile, laptop, tablet, etc.) and adjusts the site view accordingly, with no lag time.